polarize

verb

1. （使）两极化，截然对立
   to separate or make people separate into two groups with completely opposite opinions
   1. Public opinion has polarized on this issue.
      在这个问题上公众意见已呈两极化。
   2. The issue has polarized public opinion.
      这个问题已使公众意见两极化。
2. 使（光波等）偏振
   to make waves of light, etc. vibrate in a single direction
3. 使（物体）极化
   to give polarity to sth
   1. to polarize a magnet
      使磁体极化

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 polarise


1. V-ERG （使）两极化；（使）分化；（使）对立
   If something polarizes people or if something polarizes, two separate groups are formed with opposite opinions or positions.
   1. Missile deployment did much to further polarize opinion in Britain...
      在英国，导弹部署极大地导致了意见进一步分化。
   2. As the car rental industry polarizes, business will go to the bigger companies...
      随着汽车租赁业的两极分化，生意将流向较大的公司。
   3. The green debate tends to polarise into science-as-saviour versus science-as-devil camps.
      有关环保的辩论往往会分化成“科学是救星”和“科学是恶魔”两个阵营。

1. Missile deployment did much to further polarize opinion in Britain
   在英国，导弹部署极大地导致了意见进一步分化。
2. As the car rental industry polarizes, business will go to the bigger companies
   随着汽车租赁业的两极分化，生意将流向较大的公司。
3. Footballer David Beckham's ability to polarize opinion has seen him included in both lists.
   足球明星大卫•贝克汉姆在这两个排行榜上均有一席之地，全靠他有本事能让公众对他的评价两极分化。
4. That is because committees and other groups tend either to follow the leader in a rush of conformity or to polarize into warring camps.
   这是因为委员会等组织往往要么就意见统一地跟着领导跑，要么就分化成两个对抗的阵营。
5. Triggers are a powerful DB2 database feature that can be used to polarize business logic to the relational database.
   触发器是DB2数据库的一个非常强大的特性，您可以使用它将业务逻辑分化到关系数据库这边。
6. The light bounces off the structures so that the scales appear to us as a shimmering green. But using optical equipment that can polarize light, those scales appear bright blue.
   太阳光从这些结构中反射出来，翅瓣看上去就是绿油油的，但要是利用光学设备使光发生偏振，那些翅瓣就会变成亮蓝色。
7. After entering21st century, china's urbanization process is accelerated, the original household register system is broken, the gap between rich and poor is changed to polarize by a polarization, all these make poor problem in the City show especially.
   进入21世纪后，中国城市化进程加快，原有户籍制度被打破，贫富差距加大，这些都使得城市贫困问题凸现。
8. But most people never polarize.
   但大多数人从来不曾极化过。
9. If you polarize as a darkworker, you are dedicating your life to serving yourself.
   如果你极化为征服者，就表示要一生致力于自我服务。
10. Rather than polarize, synthesize.
    不要两极分化，综合一下。
11. Rather than polarize with partners figure out how you can find the fertile ground of compromise.
    与其和伙伴形成分化的局面，不如想办法找到如何妥协的地方。
12. The ground will not have time to polarize completely and the decay will have a smaller amplitude.
    地层还来不及充分极化，衰减曲线的幅度将比较小。
13. Experts say the budget debate could easily polarize advocates on both the political left and right, which could leave an opening for Obama.
    一些专家认为，预算辩论很容易使政治上的左右两派拥两极化，这可能给奥巴马总统留下一个机会。
14. To polarize American opinion, there is nothing quite like the subject of immigration.
    没有什么话题比“移民”更能反映美国人极端的意见。
15. We think that languages – for whatever reasons – polarize a lot and with a 'one size fits all' approach you always lock out millions of developers.
    我们认为语言不论什么原因非常极端，并有“放之四海而皆准”的方法，就是把几百万的开发者拒之门外了。
16. It is not so easy a matter however to fabricate a grid which will polarize light, but it has been done.
    然而要做一个让光起偏的线栅则不那样容易，但是究竟还是做出来了。
17. A plastic film that can polarize a beam of light; often used in sunglasses to eliminate glare.
    可以使光束偏振的一种塑料薄膜；使用时通常戴着太阳镜来挡住耀眼的光。
18. We recommend not crossing the legs so that the energy may correctly polarize in the field.
    我们推荐不要交叉双腿，以便你的能量在能量场中正确极化。
19. Photons penetrating into a dielectric polarize it and, in turn, are partially canceled out.
    光子穿透入介电质会使其偏极化，而且会造成部份的抵消。
20. But due to the high coercive field, it's difficult to polarize the NBT ceramic sufficiently.
    但NBT陶瓷的矫顽场过高，使得材料很难充分极化，材料所具有的真实压电性能无法充分展现出来。
21. Optical switch based on MOEMS technology obviously has more advantages than optical switch base on other technologies, such as wavelength transparence and polarize independence.
    基于MOEMS技术的光开关和其他技术类型的光开关相比显然具有更多的优良性能，例如波长透明和偏振无关等。
22. Slow Polarize Dielectric Relaxation in Polymers Materials
    聚合物材料中的慢极化介电弛豫
23. In order to polarize non-linear crystal, a kind of high voltage power supply, which can output low repeat frequency pulse, was designed.
    为了满足外加电场极化法制作具有周期性畴反转结构的非线性晶体的需要，本文设计了一种能输出超低重复频率高压矩形波脉冲的电源装置。
24. When the polarize potential is at+ 0.14V, there are also three time constants, but the inductance arc disappears, and there has a bias line at low frequency area, which corresponding to diffusion impedance.
    极化电位增加至+0.14V时，阻抗谱出现了三个时间常数，阻抗谱中感抗成分消失，低频区出现一段与电极的扩散阻抗相对应的直线；
25. The polarize in the patronage is very serious;
    赞助营销两极分化现象严重；
26. This situation may make income level widened between rural and urban areas, polarize residents 'income.
    如果继续维持这一现状，势必造成两类居民之间收入水平的拉大，带来城乡居民收入的两极分化。
27. When molecules are solvated in the solution, the solute molecule polarize solvent molecules around it and this gives rise to a field reaction field acting back-OB-the molecule, which will have effects on the structure of solvated molecules and their optical properties.
    当分子溶解在溶剂中时，溶质分子将使溶剂发生极化现象，被极化的溶剂反过来又会产生一个反应场作用于溶质分子，从而影响溶质分子的几何结构和光学特性。
28. So, the Commonality Policy measures to reduce our polarize.
    因此，发挥公共政策的调节作用，是缩小我国两极分化的重要经济手段。
29. In traditional ball teaching, people usually polarize the teaching of skills and tactics.
    在传统的球类教学中，人们往往把技术和战术教学两极化。
30. Epithelial and endothelial cells can form selective barriers between tissues and different body compartments. They polarize and adhere to each other through intercellular complexes including tight junctions ( TJs), adherens junctions and desmosomes.
    上皮细胞和内皮细胞在组织和不同的细胞间形成了选择性的屏障，它们发生了极化，且通过细胞间的复合物互相连接，这些复合物包括紧密连接、粘性连接和桥粒。

verb

1. become polarized in a conflict or contrasting situation

   Synonym:    polarise

2. cause to concentrate about two conflicting or contrasting positions

   Synonym:    polarise

3. cause to vibrate in a definite pattern
   1. polarize light waves

   Synonym:    polarise